Combined touring and sleeping car.



M/ITNESSES E. T. ZIMMERMAN.

COMBINED mums AND SLEEPING CAR.

Patented Dec. 7, 1915.

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APPLICATION FILED MAR. 12, 1915.

E. T. ZIMMERMAN.

COMBINED TOURING AND SLEEPING CAR.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 12. 1915. v 7

' Patented Dec. 1, 191:).

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W1 TNESSES M BY I I 12h Ht/owmy ELI T. ZIMMERMAN, or MA'NsFIELDQO-HIO- COMBINED TOURING'AND SLEEPING CAB.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELI T. ZDIMERM'AN, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Mansfield, in the county land and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in bined Touring and Sleeping Cars, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in combined touring and sleeping cars, and relates more particularly to automobiles.

The objects of the invention are to provide a car with reclining swiveled or rotary chairs movable longitudinally of the car either toward the front or rear thereof upon tracks provided to prescribe certain paths of travel for the chairs and to utilize the tracks asa means of support for the chair bases or pedestals to prevent the latter from upsetting or tilting during the car movements.

- to provide collapsible A further object of the invention is to provide an arrangement of chairs so that same may be positioned about a table that is common to all of the chairs, and to. mount and relate the chairs so that adjacent chairs can be combined to form a sleeping bed or re elining couch. I

.a still -further object of the invention is means for forming upper berths or sl eeping beds above the lower beds formed by latter isnot in use. I

Still further thed'fivention aims to provide a collapsible bed structure in which the parts can be folded into minimum space.

Other and further objects of the inye rr tion will be later set forth and manifested in (the course of thejellowing' description. In the drawings: Figure 1 is a side view of the touring car body with parts broken away to show the interior thereof with the cots or beds and chairs arranged for sleeping purposes; Fig. 2 is. a side view showing the interior. of the touring car with the reclining chairs arranged in close proximity to a conventional table to be used by the passengers if they so desire, the rear end of the body being shown in section; Fig. 3 is a Specification of Letters Patent.

of Rich- I Com- the chairs; to provide pieans for storing the collapsible nmans when the Patented'Dec. *7, 1915.

Application filed March 12, 1915. Serial No. 13,842.

rear end elevation of Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is a detail sectional view showing the method of fastening a piece of canvas or other suitable fabric to the frame-work for providing a 5 cot or support for the sleeper; Fig. 5 is a perspective view of one of the T-shaped fittings which is used with the frame-work; and Fig. 6 is a similar view of an L-shaped fitting which is used on the ends of the frame-/ 6 work.

In proceeding in accordance with the present invention foot plates 1 are rigidly secured to the floor of the automobile and are provided with interiorly threaded sockets in 6 which are thread dly engaged the lower ends of standards 2. The standards are arranged in pairs, each pair being connected by cross braces 3 that are threadedly engaged at their ends 1n fittings 3 secured adjacent the up- 7 per ends of the standards 2.

The end standards 2 have L-shaped upper ends as shown in Fig. (5, and are possessed of U-shaped seats 4 closed at their outer ends by walls 5 while 6 are provided With T shaped heads formed with U-shaped' seats. Sections of pipe 8 are arranged in the seats with their adjacent ends in abutment; canvas 9 being wrapped about drawn taut or stretched by means of a strap and buckle 11 so tolform-a bed."

In operation'when it is desired to knockdown-the berths which the canvas members 9 form, the latter are lifted out of the seats l and 7 then rolled up and placed in boxes 18 provided for their reception along the sides of the car. The cross braces 3 are then unthreaded from the fittings 3' and the standards 2 and (i are unthreaded from the fort plates 1 whereuponthe standards and cross braces may be placed in the side boxes 18 or in drawers l7 that are provided at the front end of the car as shown in Figs. 1 and 3. Bedding may be kept in the drawers 17 and the latter also used for other I storage purposes.

the intermediate standards 1 the pipe sections and being 1 adjustahie baeks l3 and adjustable foot or leg rests 21 and have arms 20, as shown in ig. 2. w

By slidably mounting the chairs same 3 ma, be moved to a position whereby the hue: 13 of a fr nt chair when lowered will rest upon the seat of the adjacent rear chair and thus provide a cot or lower berth, The

W p i of iacksli are spaced so as to .re-'

it eei'v'e a ta 1e fl in said spaceu hereby the latter may be iisttl assh an in Fig 2 by arrang ing: the chairs tliei arcane.

The rear end 19 of the automobile may be hinged as indicated at Ell so that the latter is be lowered to the position shown in Fig 1 to serve as a table, shelf, or the like. As illustrated in Fig. 8 the upper berths which the canvas members 9 provide are located above the chairs 3', an arrangement to which thus uses the space in the automobile to the best advantage. \Vhat is claimed is: i; In a car, angle iron tracks. and adjustable chairs havi'ne bases slidablv engaged with the tracks and movable to a position so that the head portion of a front chair can be moved down to a position to be supported upon the seat portion of a rear chair.

In a car, foot plates having threaded iiii sockets, standards threaded into said sockets, cross braces removably connected to the standards, the end standards having seats which open upwardly and are closed at their outer ends, the intermediate standards having T-shaped heads with seats that open upl'dl and are open at both ends, bars havi 'fh gpds abutting and their outer ends g g d ith 2 1 lsfffl ends of the seats of the and etandards aud li hke 40 wrapped ab'fiiit the ha I Iii a calrtracks, an iifit lltiiigfitudii at .t ans 1, stable pa ers s eved close to a rear chair a ,ba'ckafiithe front chair lowered to rest oh these/at of the rear chair, and means for forming upper berths above the chairs, including elements remorablr fixed to the floor of the car outside ofthe tracks,

In a car, chairs having? adjustahle'hacks so that the back of a front chair can be moved down and rested upon the seat of a rear chair, means to slidablv connect the chairs to the car floor, and. means removably connected to the ear floor for forming berths above the chairs.

In a car, a separable and removable framework for forming upper berths, means to removably connect same to the ear floor, tracks, chairs adjustable thereon to form lower berths, and means to movably connect the chairs to the car floor so that same may be rotated and related to form the lower berths.

6. In a car, standards removably connected to the car floor and having upper seats, the seats of end standards having outer end walls and the seats of intermediate standards having both of their ends open, bars in the seats having their outer ends engaged with said walls, and a fabric member connecting the bars to form a bed.

7 In a car, tracks, rotatable chairs movable and adiustable thereon to conjointly form a lower berth, and an open separable frame work which engages on opposite sides of the chairs and which is removably connected to the car to form an upper berth.

8. In a car, a pair of tracks, and rotatable and adjustable inclining chairs having bases slidable in the tracks whereby to allow of sliding of the chairs but to prevent same from tipping, a separable frame work adapted to inclose said chairs, and a resilient fabric fastened to said frame-work.

9. In a car, two pairsof tracks with a space between the two pairs adapted to receive a table in said space, and chairs slidable in the pairs of tracks.

10.111 a car, tracks, a lower berth formed by adjustable inclining and rotatable chairs which are mounted on said tracks, and an upper berth formed by open framework removably connected to the car.

11. In a .car, the combination of an automobile body with means of providing upper and lower berths which comprise a plurality of lower berths consisting of inclining, rotatable and slidable chairs and tracks for said chairs and a separable framework adapted for use as upper berths.

12. In a car, the combinationof an auto- 'T| ;I d" th means of providing upper of lower l -nxisting of inclining, rotatable and slidable chairs, racks for said chairs, and a separable and removable open fiame-woi-Ir to ir'ielos'e said chairs and provide a frame-Work for upper berths directly over the top of the lower berths.

l3. In a combined touring: and sleeping oar, tracks secured to the floor thereof, a plurality of inclininmrotatable and slidable ich'airs secured to said tracks and adapted to fdrnr lower berths, open and separable frames surrounding said chairs, a resllient fabric attached to sairLframe-w'ork d rectly over the top thereof to provide upper berths. 14. In a combined touringnnd sleeping car, comprising: the following nstrumentalities: flanged tracks, a chair shdablv secured to' said tracks which is arranged and adapted to provide a lower berth, an open and separable framework adapted to surround and extend above the top of said chair, and e.-

g d lfi qhrths which comprise a plurality supporting fabric connected to the frarneframes surrounding said chairs and a supwork above the lower chair berths, as deporting means connected to said frame to scribed and set forth. provide upper berths, as described and sej: 1G

15. In a combined sleeping and touring forth.

car, tracks chairs slidably secured to said In estimony GO I afli my s gl fl tracks which are adapted to be used for a lower berths. open, separable and removable ELI T. ZIMMERMAN.

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